The development history of Call of Duty Modern Warfare III (2023) has been peppered with contradictions and question marks. It began in February 2022 with a credible report from Bloomberg's Jason Schreier that this year would be the first one since 2004 without a new, premium, annual mainline release in the Call of Duty franchise. That report suggested the void would be filled with DLC for Modern Warfare II (2022) and a free-to-play game from Treyarch.
The latter project was later detailed a bit more by leaker Tom Henderson as 'Project Nexus', likely to be connected to zombies. Shortly after that, though, Activision said 'premium content' was planned for 2023 and beyond. In October 2022, another prominent Call of Duty leaker said Modern Warfare II would receive both a campaign and a map pack DLC in late 2023. At this point, everyone assumed that would be the 'premium content' mentioned above by the publisher. Schreier once again fueled the rumor mill in November 2022, stating that Sledgehammer would make the paid expansion and include 'lots of content' in the DLC. At that time, he still maintained the next game, Call of Duty Modern Warfare III, would be launching in 2024.
In February 2023, however, the tune from insiders changed. Tom Henderson first reported a change of plans inside Activision. The publisher shifted those expansion plans into a full premium release inside the Modern Warfare sub-series: Call of Duty Modern Warfare III.
Henderson also revealed the full public rollout for this new game:
The release date was officially confirmed last week, so it's fair to assume the rest of the schedule is genuine, too. Last month, Activision also 'corroborated' earlier rumors and revealed that Operators, Weapons, and Bundles
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